Musee National des Arts Asiatiques - Guimet
7 expert reviews
“Surrounded by a Japanese garden, the superb neo-Classical Hôtel Heidelbach-Guimet is an annexe of the Musée Guimet.”
– Michelin Guide
"The outstanding Musée Guimet boasts the western world's biggest collection of Asian art, thanks to the 19th-century wanderings of Lyonnaise industrialist Émile Guimet." Full review
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"France’s foremost Asian art museum has a superb collection of sculptures, paintings and religious articles that originated in the vast stretch of land between Afghanistan and Japan." Full review
3 Stars
"The «Louvre of Oriental Art» is how the Guimet Museum has been described. It has probably the world's collection of Asiatic art." Full review
3 Stars
"The «Louvre of Oriental Art» is how the Guimet Museum has been described." Full review
"Lower galleries focus on India and South-east Asia, centred on stunning Hindu and Buddhist Khmer sculpture from Cambodia." Full review
"Founded in 1889 by collector and industrialist Emile Guimet, this vast collection of Asian art is one of the largest and most complete in Europe" Full review